{"id":2896,"date":"2013-11-21T22:58:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T02:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2013-11-23T00:46:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T04:46:27","slug":"mcevoy-johnson-senior-poker-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/mcevoy-johnson-senior-poker-tour","title":{"rendered":"McEvoy, Johnson headline Senior Poker Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/late-registration-poker-tournament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/late-registration-poker-tournament.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"late-registration-poker-tournament\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1299\" \/><\/a>The number of entrants in the WSOP Seniors Hold&#8217;em Championship increased by almost 300 people this year, hitting a record of 4,407 players. Apparently, WSOP winners Tom McEvoy and Linda Johnson took notice of this since they&#8217;re headlining a new poker tournament series that&#8217;s dedicated entirely to seniors.<\/p>\n<p>Appropriately titled the Senior Poker Tour (SPT), this series will hold its first official event at the Horseshoe Casino in Tunica from January 15-19. There&#8217;ll be 17 tournaments at SPT Tunica, with a $550 buy-in Main Event serving as the marquee tourney.<\/p>\n<p>In a poker world where Main Event buy-ins commonly range from $1k to $10k or more, the $550 amount is certainly interesting. Back when many senior players were younger, this is around what buy-ins used to cost. So you can bet that more older players will be encouraged to get involved in the SPT.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this definitely seems like a good thing for poker because seniors are becoming a larger part of the market. Aside from the WSOP Seniors Championship, a lot of players aged 50 and over are entering other tournaments too. Given that these grinders have some money on their hands, it&#8217;s definitely a good idea to encourage participation among this demographic.<\/p>\n<p>So does this mean that the SPT is headed for success? Well, the idea of a seniors-only poker organization is a relatively new concept in today&#8217;s game. And obviously the SPT is never going to grow as large as the WSOP, EPT or WPT, where anybody can enter, regardless of age. <\/p>\n<p>But as pointed out in the beginning, poker is rapidly growing among older players. So it seems that now is as good of time as any to open up a tournament series that caters specifically to seniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of entrants in the WSOP Seniors Hold&#8217;em Championship increased by almost 300 people this year, hitting a record of 4,407 players. Apparently, WSOP winners Tom McEvoy and Linda Johnson took notice of this since they&#8217;re headlining a new poker tournament series that&#8217;s dedicated entirely to seniors. Appropriately titled the Senior Poker Tour (SPT), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[1440,652,1436,1437,1439,654,1438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}